1. Education and Popular Culture in the 20s How do schools & mass media shape the Roaring 20s?

2. Education on the rise ● Public school enrollment increases by 2.5 million students in the 1920s ● Secondary schools prepare students for job market (vocational education) ● Student dress, slang & behavior become the “norm” for pop culture ● School costs increase, meaning tax increases for average citizens

3. 1920s Fads PUEZLZ W R O C D R S S O 1) Flagpole sitting 2) Dance Marathons 3) Barnstormers 4) Games 5) The Charleston http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0&featur e=related

4. Mass Media & Pop. Culture ● Newspaper & magazine circulation increases causing more literacy ● Radio: allows people to hear live sporting events, news & entertainment

5. Sports Heroes Baseball: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig & Andrew “Rube” Foster Gertrude Ederie was first woman to swim the English Channel Helen Willis dominated women’s tennis Jack Dempsey dominates boxing

6. That’s Entertainment! ● 1928: First animated film w/ sound “Steamboat Willie” George Gershwin = top composer of 1920s ● 1927: 1 st movie with sound, “ The Jazz Singer” ● Charlie Chaplain: most famous silent movie stars Georgia O’ Keefe top 1920s artist

7. Famous American Writers ● F. Scott Fitzgerald = coined the term “jazz age” ● Ernest Hemingway = Criticizes the glorification of war ● Edna St. Vincent Millay = wrote poems celebrating youth & independence ● Sinclair Lewis = 1st American to win the Nobel Prize in literature

8. Aviation Heroes Charles Lindbergh  1 st person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (1927) NY-Paris  Becomes instant celebrity  1 st person to fly from HI to CA (1935)  Tries to circumnavigate the globe but plane disappears (1937)  1 st woman to cross Atlantic (1928, 1932) Amelia Earhart

9. Film Clips: Amelia 1. Why did the men running the derby want to cut the race short? 2. What does Putnam tell another female flier? Do you think Earhardt care about winning? 3. What does Earhadt decide to do next? Describe the journey. 4. What issues does Earhadt face when she tries to circumnavigate the globe? 5. Was Earhardt or her plane ever found? Why was she so important for the role of women during this era?